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Author(s): Gunnel Cederlöf (editor)
ISBN(s): 9781032320922, 1032320923
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.15 MB
Year: 2022
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1032320923 
ISBN 13: 9781032320922
Author: Gunnel Cederlof

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor’s private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire. With deep insights into everyday work practices of Indian and European contractors and manual labourers, the book establishes a bridge across the globe, between two poor regions as sites of extraction and industrial transformation, resulting from global migration and capital flows. Drawing on rich archival sources such as the Joseph Stephens Archive, Maharashtra State Archives, the National Archives of India, and the British Library, the book offers deep insights into everyday business practices of European contractors in India, which were rarely documented and have remained largely inaccessible so far.

A unique look into the labour and entrepreneurship practices under British colonial rule in India, as well as its impact on the most transformative years of modern southern Scandinavia, the book will be of great interest to students, academics, and teachers of history, labour studies, subaltern studies, colonialism, imperialism, economic history, railways, economics, and Scandinavian and South Asian studies.

The Imperial Underbelly Workers Contractors and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Imperial Formations and Economic Frontiers

Chapter 1: Empire in Motion: Colonialism, Capital, and Peripheral Economies

  • Scandinavian Ventures and Informal Empire

  • British India and the Imperial Industrial Complex

Chapter 2: Mapping the Laboring Classes

  • Definitions of Work and Worker in Colonial Contexts

  • Class, Caste, and Gender in Labor Mobilization

Part II: The Lives of Workers and Contractors

Chapter 3: Coolies, Carpenters, and Colliers: Indian Workers in the Colonial Economy

  • Migration, Indenture, and Resistance

  • Industrial Labor in Mines, Railways, and Ports

Chapter 4: Scandinavian Labor in the North and Beyond

  • Timber, Trade, and the Arctic Frontier

  • Seasonal Workers and Industrial Growth

Chapter 5: Contractors, Middlemen, and Subaltern Entrepreneurs

  • The “Native” Contractor in India

  • Scandinavian Entrepreneurs and Merchant Networks

Part III: Intersections and Comparisons

Chapter 6: Colonial Infrastructures and Labor Regimes

  • Railroads, Ports, and the Built Environment

  • Labor Regulation, Surveillance, and Discipline

Chapter 7: Mobility, Exploitation, and Resistance

  • Workers’ Agency, Petitions, and Protests

  • Comparative Labor Law and Policy

Part IV: Afterlives and Legacies

Chapter 8: Memory, Archive, and the Colonial Workplace

  • Oral Histories and Labor Narratives

  • Forgotten Workers and Postcolonial Reckonings

Chapter 9: Empire’s Entrepreneurs: Legacies in Contemporary India and Scandinavia

  • Capitalist Continuities and Labor Precarity

  • Entrepreneurship, Development, and Postcolonial Identity

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